W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes

I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake.

I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests.

Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

A young sailor boy came to see me to-day. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation.

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

After all, tomorrow is another day.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

Whatever it was that I felt was the weak link in my previous project gave me inspiration for the next one.

Why can a man not act himself, be himself, and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power; that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness, however small we may be.

There'll be icicles and birthday clothes And sometimes there'll be sorrow

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

I am a woman of heart and mind, looking for affection and respect, a little passion.

In a weak moment, I have written a book.

I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.

What is the gospel according to Jesus? Simply this: that the love we all long for in our innermost heart is already present, beyond longing.

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.